{"id":7849,"date":"2009-10-14T14:07:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T20:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=7849"},"modified":"2009-10-14T14:10:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T20:10:24","slug":"nmsu%e2%80%99s-cruzado-offered-president-job-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/10\/nmsu%e2%80%99s-cruzado-offered-president-job-in-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"NMSU\u2019s Cruzado offered president job in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Waded Cruzado (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n

New Mexico State University Executive Vice President and Provost Waded Cruzado has been offered the job of president at Montana State University, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle<\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re her first choice, she\u2019s our first choice,\u201d Sheila Stearns, MSU commissioner of higher education, was quoted by the newspaper as saying. \u201cShe\u2019s a terrific academic leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stearns and two other MSU officials are flying to Las Cruces today to negotiate with Cruzado. In an e-mail, Cruzado told the newspaper she is \u201cimmensely honored about the possibility to continue a conversation about the future of MSU and my potential contribution to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNeedless to say, I am thrilled, grateful and humbled about what this opportunity represents,\u201d the newspaper quoted her as saying.<\/p>\n

The decision to offer the job to Cruzado was made Tuesday. Cruzado had been one of three finalists<\/a> for the job, and one of the others withdrew his name<\/a> from consideration over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Cruzado had also interviewed as a finalist for the president job at the University of Texas-Pan American<\/a>, but that school\u2019s board of regents selected another candidate<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

Cruzado\u2019s job searching comes months after she was ousted<\/a> from the interim president job at NMSU.<\/p>\n

After former President Michael Martin left NMSU in 2008, the regents named Cruzado interim president while they searched for a new leader. But after spending $90,000 on the search to replace Martin, the regents scrapped the process late last year, saying a state law that required them to publicly name five finalists hampered the process.<\/p>\n

Gov. Bill Richardson<\/a> responded by replacing three of five regents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In restarting the search in May, the new board ousted Cruzado from the interim president job, saying they wanted to ensure the integrity of a new search<\/a>. Cruzado is popular among students and faculty, and some said a move to make her the permanent president during the previous search created the appearance of a done deal and also hampered the university\u2019s attempts to draw other qualified applicants.<\/p>\n

Many Cruzado supporters were angered by the regents\u2019 decision to move her back to the provost job.<\/p>\n

After removing Cruzado from NMSU\u2019s top job, the regents named a new interim leader, Manuel Pacheco<\/a>, and said Cruzado could apply for the permanent president job. Cruzado has not said whether she is interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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